48 applicants

Company

Waymo · 4 days ago

2025 Summer Intern, PhD, Research - MLLM / Foundation Models

Mountain View, CA, USA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$60.10/hr - $60.10/hr

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Responsibilities

Extend and fine-tune existing multimodal large language models

Explore leveraging language models' reasoning capabilities to improve end-to-end driving and other various driving tasks

Evaluate model performance on both the Waymo dataset and academia benchmark

Qualification

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PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningC/C++PytorchTensorflowLarge Language ModelsJAXComputer VisionStatistical AnalysisApplied MathematicsPhysics

Required

Currently enrolled in a PhD program in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical field of study

Basic software programming or scripting skills (Python, C/C++)

Experience with machine learning or deep learning

Familiar with one of the modern deep learning frameworks (e.g. Pytorch, JAX, Tensorflow)

Preferred

Hands-on experience with large language models, VLMs, multimodal models

Publications from top peer-reviewed conferences (eg: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, Neurips, ICLR)

Prior industry experience (including internships) in software engineering and computer vision / machine learning

Benefits

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Company

Waymo

Glassdoor

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Waymo improves transportation by developing self-driving technology developed in Google’s labs. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 2009

Mountain View, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.waymo.com

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